Make Big Money Online

If you really want to change your life and make big money online there is only one way to do it; have dedication, over deliver, think in the long term and use the right tools. If you speak to any successful online entrepreneur they will tell you that get rich quick schemes don't work, long term real business plans do.

You can make big money online and lots of people are doing it today. It's not rocket science, it's incredibly low tech and obvious when pointed out to you but most people don't see it. There are two case studies below of two people who are each making 5 figure incomes each and every month and have been for several years. They are not unique or by any means the only ones, read their stories with the knowledge that YOU can do this too!

Ever Dreamt of Earning a Living
From Your Own Web site?

(If We Can, Anyone Can. Here's How.)

Hi! I'm Elad...the Birthday Dad ;-)

And here I am with my sister, Tamar (Why?... I'll explain in a moment...).

This is not just a story of how a simple (and fun) Web site, built by two "amateurs", turned into a high-ranking, high-traffic, highly-profitable source of income - in under six months.

First and foremost, it is a story about how the creation of this site has helped my sister and I realize and achieve our true dreams...

My name is Elad.

My daughter Maya was born in June 2001. At the time, I was working as a Marketing Communications manager at a large High Tech company in Israel. The job was demanding, pay was OK (I guess...), I wasn't much at home, and family time was reduced to a few hours on the weekends.

Ugrh!!!

I often caught myself daydreaming of how great it would be to work from home, be my own boss, be able to shut the computer whenever I wanted and play with Maya or go out to the café with my wife in the middle of the day....

I've run into lots of so-called work-from-home and get-rich-in-a-week schemes on the Net. And I must admit that some are quite tempting, especially to someone who was eager for a change like myself. But, as a skeptic, I never really bought into any of them and usually would just click on to the next page.

Until one day I stumbled upon a free 5-day email course that promised to enhance my online writing skills as a first step towards building an online business. Again, my first reaction was: Yeah, right... But I admit, something about this particular course strum a sensitive chord, tickled my hopes of one day working from home, and... it was free, so what the heck.

I signed up.

It may sound a bit dramatic, but I regard that very moment of signing up as a turning point in my life.

I have no better way to describe the course besides mind-boggling! It helped me understand that the key to earning a living from a Web site is not by going out and learning HTML, graphic design or any other technical stuff (which already had me quite confused...)

The key is first and foremost the ability to WRITE words that can sell.

The course was so powerful and genuine, yet simple and down-to-earth, that it left me gasping for more.)

After the final installment of the course, I immediately bought an ebook called Make Your Words Sell! (co-written by the same author who wrote the free course, Dr. Ken Evoy). It is by far the very best book on writing (not just Netwriting but virtually any sort of marketing-oriented writing) I've ever read. It took me just one day to devour its 300+ pages. And it's written so simply and eloquently, as if you're sitting in your living room with your old buddy Ken, having a chat over a cup of decaf (or Turkish coffee as customary on our end of the world...). I've read it several times since and keep referring to it and learning from it all the time.

With all the newly acquired knowledge, the next step was putting theory to practice.

My little sister Tamar (23, not so little anymore I guess...), who is an amazing artist (OK, I'm impartial, but I'll link you to some of her work in a moment) was working day and night as a waitress and didn't have any time for her own art. So I offered to build her a small Web site to promote her murals for kids' rooms. Maybe she'd get a job or two to even out the waitressing?

In a matter of weeks Tamar was getting more than five calls a day (all via the Web site), closing lots of work - her average mural was about $250 - which was about one whole week of waitressing. She left her waitressing job and began focusing only on painting murals.

Next came a call from a family friend from California, Ami Adini, who heard how Tamar was getting lots and lots of work just from her Web site. Ami, an environmental consultant, had spent quite a few dollars on building a company Web site, but was quite frustrated that it had not generated even a single lead. So we agreed that I'd rebuild his California-based site from my home in Israel...

This was a much bigger project than Tamar's site and I felt I needed a bit more knowledge to build it correctly. By now, I was receiving weekly newsletters from Dr. Ken Evoy, who had become sort of my internet Guru, and I decided to invest $30 in another one of his books called: Make Your Site Sell!

Make Your Site Sell! is considered by many to be the "bible" of selling on the Net. It covers every imaginable aspect of building a Web site that can really SELL. Again, written in Ken's down-to-earth chummy voice. It was also the perfect supplement to the first book I had purchased Make Your Words Sell!

Armed with the wealth of knowledge from these books I was ready to transform www.amiadini.com into a site that actually generated leads for Ami's services.

You'll notice that it's a very simple site, focused on a local clientele. It took me three weeks to build (I knew nothing about the environmental industry and taught myself just a bit of Web building using Dreamweaver to get around) and I still administer it on a regular basis.

This is what Ami recently wrote me:

"Your contribution to our success is sizable. I personally have now stopped recording the calls we get off the Internet from our Web site. Additionally, our enhanced newsletter (thanks to your efforts) is getting VERY positive reactions."

I have returned my $60 investment in the two ebooks a hundred fold.

Dr. Ken Evoy's company has a third product, it's flagship, called Site Build It!. After experiencing the success with the first two books, I was gradually becoming more and more interested in it.

Site Build It! (SBI!) sells itself as an all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, site-promoting suite of tools. It supposedly eliminates all the confusing technical complexities and exhausting manual labor involved in building and promoting a site, and leaves you with the fun part - creating content.

Sounds like one heck of a product, but I admit that my inner skeptic voice wasn't ready to part with the few hundred dollars Site Build It! costs.

However, my day job was getting more and more intense, I was barely seeing my family, I was dragging myself to work, and worst of all, my dream (upon which I will elaborate in a moment...) was now light years away. And that's what got the red lights really flickering.

So one day I just got up and said to myself - ENOUGH! It's time to start moving towards my real goals.

I have a family to support, so I couldn't just get up and go, leave my job and hope for the best (although there were moments I was very tempted to...)

So I took a deep breath, and invested the few hundred dollars in Site Build It!

My knees were shaking when I clicked submit on the Secure online Credit Card form. But, my third investment in a SiteSell product turned out to be the very best investment I have ever made!

My goal was to build an online business that would generate an income equal (or greater, of course) to the salary I was earning. And also wouldn't be dependant on any country's economy (as my country's economy is in shambles...).

Site Build It! comes with yet another ebook that helps you get a potentially profitable site up and running by following a ten chapter program. I had no idea what my "money-making" site would be about, but after reading through the first two days, I understood that it would have to involve a theme that was close to my heart.

Travel or backpacking were the obvious choice.

And I was just about ready to choose the domain name and start building my travel/backpacking site, when (luckily) I contained my enthusiasm, and took an extra moment for rational contemplation. With the help of one of Site Build It!'s powerful tools, I was able to measure the demand and supply for backpacking-related information on the Net and it turned out that there was lots more supply than demand.

Now, I was never really any good with economics, but low demand vs. high supply was a definite no-no. And I'm glad I stopped to think at that very moment because if I would have built a "coolest-backpacking" site, I'd probably still be working as a Marketing Communications Manager...

At this point I needed some help, a pair of fresh eyes, and "enlisted" Tamar. I asked her to follow the first few chapters of the Site Build It! ebook and help me come up with a concept. Now, when Tamar does something, she tends to go overboard. For about a whole week she sat day and night searching for a topic with high demand and low supply.

And I remember the fateful phone call with her:

"Elad, I've got a site concept for you! But you've got to sit down first and promise not to laugh.... OK?"

I promised and she continued:

"Kid birthday parties."

I admit, I couldn't stop laughing. Kid birthday parties?! Huh?!

But after a few minutes (in which Tamar almost hung up...) it dawned upon me:

* I've got my little Maya and another little girl on the way (and hopefully many more....)
* I'll be in the kid birthday biz whether I want to or not for the next 20 years (at least...).
* I always like to do things with a creative flare.
* And... I love birthdays and parties - especially when they're for my loved ones.

Hey, we may be onto something.

After her brilliant idea, I asked Tamar to join forces with me and take part in building this site. It was perfect timing because she wanted to take a break from painting murals before taking off to the US to start her art studies at one of the most celebrated Schools of Art & Design.

Tamar and I did lots and lots of research on kid birthday parties and started experimenting with our ideas on kids and during parties whenever the opportunity arose. We wrote up lots of content for the site and I was in charge of strategy and building the site from a technical aspect (although, with Site Build It!, you really don't need any technical knowledge because you can build a site through simple building blocks and monitor every aspect of traffic through a consolidated control center.)

In no time, both of us became kid birthday junkies!

There are two ways our site makes money:

1. Google Ads - We earn money when people click on an ad that appears on our site.

2. Affiliate Marketing - We provide content and make suggestions as to where to buy quality products. If a visitor clicks over from our site to our affiliate (partner merchant) we earn a commission (while the customer doesn't pay even a penny more for the product.) Fair enough.

I won't get into the woof and warp of affiliate marketing as Dr. Ken Evoy (yes, him again...) has yet another FREE ebook that explains this topic thoroughly, the Affiliate Masters Course.

The underlying philosophy is to rank high in the search engines for keywords that are in high demand and that way generate lots of traffic to our site and lots of clicks on the ads and clickthroughs to our affiliates.

In August 2003, just four months after starting the site and during a month in which many people are out vacationing, this site generated a Net profit of almost $1,000! The site was ranked 50,821 at Alexa and we had close to 500 subscribers to our Birthdayography newsletter.

(Oh yeah, and during August I was also on vacation for a whole computer-less week of Scuba diving in the Red Sea while our site continued to work as usual.)

In October 2003, commission was up to $2000 and since then stats have been continuously increasing.

As for Tamar... She's moved to the US and has been creating some amazing works of art. As you've probably noticed already, I'm a proud brother, and when I asked to "show off" her work in this story, she protested vehemently (such a humble being...).

But I'm bigger and stronger :-)

Here it is...

Tamar gets a percentage of the monthly earnings from our site (a great student salary) and can now focus solely on her dream - ART - without having to waste any of her time on minimum-wage student jobs.

She provides content and inspiration when she can (mainly during vacations...). I've been doing the rest, trying out new strategies, making mistakes and learning from them, and all the while, using the wealth of SiteSell knowledge and Site Build It! power to strengthen our site. Oh yeah, and having fun all the while!

I admit that I haven't read any other online marketing books (and I probably should), but I'd just rather read and re-read the books and free courses I already have from SiteSell because there's so much more I can learn from them and I already KNOW how much they work.

But that's not all...

Way back at the top I mentioned another dream which seemed light years away. Well... I'm also an aspiring actor/storyteller and I've always dreamt of putting together my own storytelling performance.

But I never got around to it.

Let me rephrase, I HAD never got around to doing it.

In October 2003 (with a bit more time on my hands and a whole lot of amazing energy), I uncorked the champagne on a new storytelling and music performance called:

"The Wandering Storyteller"

Together with my musician partner, we interweave a dialogue between percussion instruments and stories. The stories are based on my amusing and sometimes outrageous travel experiences. I also do some singing and act out different characters. It's a very unique show, it's the fruit of our creation, and we've been getting really great feedback and reviews.

So why have I brought it up now?

Well, besides having realized an important dream, I still had to market it.

So what did I do?

You got it.

I built a one-page site (in Hebrew - but with pictures and a video clip). The simplest site ever. A day after putting it online, I closed two performances. In December 2004, only two months after curtains went up on our new show, we performed NINE times in both private and public affairs (seven performances came in through the Web!).

Just goes to show that the knowledge I gained from the SiteSell products has no language barrier.

As a final word...

I recently left my day job much earlier than I expected to, I work from home on our Web site, Ami's Web site, and I'm developing another new site. I'm also performing in front of audiences quite a bit now. I have a rule that I close my computer (with lock and bolt) every day between 4-8 pm to be with my family. I spend lots of quality time with them!

And I'm achieving my dreams and enjoying every moment of life. So is Tamar.

I wish you the same.

Elad

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Hi there...

I guess if you are reading this article then you are probably a webmaster, aspiring webmaster, graphic designer etc. If you're not, that's OK! This article is my story on how using Dr Ken Evoy's Site Build It system is changing my life as a webmaster and husband!

Who am I? Well let me explain...

My name is Marc Liron (35) and I live and work in the UK. I am married to a wonderful woman called Sarah. We first started to "hook up" together when she was at university studying Physics and Maths, and I was a medic in the Royal Navy. And that is where I shall start my story...

SAILORS AND COMPUTERS!

It was late 1994 and by day I was sewing sailors and marines back together, but by night I was repairing PC's and building databases for local companies. I just loved working with computers and started to think about doing this as a full time job!

That's when I came across an advert for a company looking for "agents" that would approach local companies to sell them websites. I would just collect the order and their programmers would create the HTML code.

Mmm...

That got me thinking. What is a website and if they are using this thing called HTML, why can't I learn it too! The seed was sown...

I contacted the company and was sent an information pack. I read it cover to cover, then again and again! I had one of those "moments" in life where I thought I can do that!

So I went to the local bookstore that had a very good computer section. I grabbed ALL the books they had on this thing called the Internet and HTML - all THREE of them! I then read those cover to cover! I had no access to the Internet all I could do was read books and magazine articles.

Then came another life changing moment...

It was August 15, 1995

The day Microsoft released Windows 95

As soon as my local store had a PC with Windows 95 available I got one. A brand new shiny black box with a staggering (well it was back then..) Pentium 90 processor! But even more importantly it had a modem and Internet Explorer!!! Now my evenings were spent experimenting with HTML. But I still had no permanent connection to the Internet, so I moved off the Navy base, and rented a local house. BINGO, I was online!

BACK INJURY WITH PERL?

It was now January 1996 and I suffered a back injury which left me at home for 6 months! I used this time to learn about how the Internet worked, how to create simple graphics and master the "black art" of CGI programming using PERL.

I left the Royal Navy after my 6 months sick leave. This had been my webmaster apprenticeship... now I felt I was ready to start building websites commercially. And I had a lot of fun! My skills improved and so did the technology... But I never seemed to get the one thing I wanted.

Lots of Traffic!

I used to blame the fact that it was still early days and when more folks "got online" things would change...

Well more folks did get online, but things did not change! I used to scratch my head quite a lot back then, after all I could build sites that clients loved. Lots of cool graphics and some fancy "back end" stuff using CGI and MySQL.

Of course I was not alone, as the whole webmaster arena started to mushroom into a major online industry, many folks were creating very good (and some not so good) websites. BUT they did not seem to be getting the "traffic" they wanted either!

Well I just carried on... I worked as a part-time webmaster whilst doing other jobs.

1999 AND PENNY MINING STOCKS?

Then in 1999 I came across a website called Sitesell.com. This guy called Dr. Ken Evoy was selling a book on Internet Marketing called Make Your Site Sell!. I still have my original hard back copy sitting on my bookshelf. Now in 1999 there were MANY websites and "Gurus" popping up all over the place.

But Ken was different.... He had ACTUALLY done what he talked about! In fact his previous website selling his software had been a great success. But, and I am sure he will not mind me saying this, it was UGLY! And if that were bad enough it plays some real "cheesy" music as the page loads.

Here is the URL, although Ken does not sell the software anymore (he sold out his 1,000 units and stopped, as promised -- the site only exists today because, as ugly as it is, it still serves to illustrate certain examples in Make Your Site SELL): http://www.goodbytes.com/pennygold

So how could this Medical Physician, trained at a prestigious university, create an ugly looking website that sold software that frankly looked too expensive?!

Simple: Niche Market & Target Market

My jaw dropped! I had never heard of this before... What Ken did was aim solely at Penny Stock investors, and then narrow that niche down to Penny Mining Stocks. This was, and is, hardly a huge market. BUT Ken was able to sell his software to this niche VERY successfully!

This taught me a very important point! Whilst I could create a great looking and functional website for clients. I was NOT focusing on what ACTUALLY mattered. Reaching the target market online. And the sad reality is that MANY webmasters are STILL in this trap!

TAKE A TEST WITH ME...?

Let's do a simple test! (I love playing this with my webmaster friends...)

Gather some of your URLs.

Now head over to (will open new browser window): http://www.alexa.com

(If you are not familiar with Alexa it is a widely used tool for checking the popularity of a site, based on traffic. The LOWER your number, the higher is your traffic ranking vs. over 56 million ACTIVE sites on the net, which means the more traffic you are getting.)

Give it a go!

Now are YOUR sites within the top 500,000???

A NEW WAY OF WORKING

Make Your Site Sell! is still a best seller on Internet Marketing. But Ken and his company went way beyond that. They recognized that most people simply need more help to succeed online than even the best book on Net marketing can provide so, they created a product to help folks build websites that get traffic!

I was intrigued, but professional pride got the better of me and I kind of dismissed it initially...

Until that is I saw a 15 year old school girl build a website in a few hours she had spare each week. That website was getting more traffic than my "professional sites!" More traffic than her highly professional competitors, actually!

Then there was the full time teacher who built two websites based on his hobbies of Juggling and Parrots!

Agh!

These two sites were also doing better than any of my sites! WHY? They stuck to a simple process that WORKS!

Content > Traffic > PREsell > Monetize

(I won't explain that process here, but let me tell you... when you "get" this simple concept, lights go on and whistles ring in your brain.)

So I decided to swallow my pride and invest in Ken's product called Site Build It! I decided to build a website on what I know a lot about - Windows XP.

Now, this site, has been built in my spare time! I have not dedicated a huge amount of my time to it as I am busy doing other things.... HOWEVER, on the 12 month anniversary of the site, I decided to do a small review on how things had gone. These are a few of the stats:

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# TOTAL Visits to the site in the last 12 months: 901,997
# TOTAL on my Newsletter list as of the 11th Jan 2004: 9,004
# At Google on the 11th January 2004:
Number 1 position for keyword = 37 pages
Between Number 2-10 position for keyword = 25 pages
# One page alone had 53,683 visits last month!
# Alexa.com ranking = 30,902
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I was really amazed! NONE of my sites had ever done so well... AND this is all down by just creating 3 or 4 pages a week! In fact I have been so "impressed" with the way things have worked out that I applied to join the Certified SBI Webmaster program and help other SBI owners with their websites!

http://webmaster.sitesell.com/certified/

HANG UPS

I had to get used to a few things though! For instance there is no CGI bin and FTP access... Initially I had to get my head around this. I thought that this would be a stumbling block, after all I like to create websites with interactive features and NEED a CGI bin... But since the programmers at SiteSell have actually included what most individuals and small businesses need I have found I don't need CGI!. (By the way, if you need something they don't provide, everything else can be plugged in via their researched "best of breed" third parties, and at a discount since they forego their affiliate commissions -- their Resources HQ alone is worth "the price of admission").

Since I have started using SiteBuild It with clients I have ONLY had one that needed more functionality than I could get out of Site Build It. So we have created a site on a "traditional" hosting plan and then ALSO created a website, using Site build It, to drive the traffic to it! My own site has great graphics, streaming MP3 audio embedded in Flash, downloadable PDF files, JavaScript drop-in boxs, opt-in newsletter, auto-responders, surveys etc.

AND Site Build It does ALL of the Search Engine submission/spider-tracking/index-verification/rank-reporting for me - 24 hours a day! (It even re-submits if spiders don't come after a period of a time!). As a webmaster I rarely have to look at any other way of building and hosting websites...

THE FUTURE

Well this last year has REALLY made a difference to me... I have been able to reach so MANY of my target market that on January 27th 2004 Microsoft awarded me their converted:

Most Valued Professional (MVP) Award

I had to provide the "time", "effort" and "knowledge" BUT Site Build It allowed my small site to reach my target market by the thousand's and THAT got my site NOTICED... (Something I am sure ALL webmasters want for their sites!)

Now I am able to look to this year with excitement! I have website full of relevant content for my audience, a steadily growing stream of targeted traffic and a growing newsletter base.

Now I am able to start selling to my target market... I have listened to what my site visitors have been asking for. So at the end of February 2004 I am releasing an e-book on the Windows XP Registry. I am now in the "Monetize" phase!

How ironic that all those years, I was starting backward.... putting up a great site, all the bells and whistles, cash register ready. Only one problem...

No traffic.

As Ken would say...

"You have to start where your pre-customers start... Content."

It is indeed the only way for the small business to succeed online.

Ken likes to quote Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, publisher of Forbes magazine). On his site, he provides this one...

"Venture nothing,
and life is less than it should be."

And I've spotted this one in his personal sig file in his e-mail...

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not
making a living at doing what they most enjoy."

To that, I'll add this quotation from Mr. Forbes...

"When you cease to dream,
you cease to live."

My dream for 2004 is that Sarah and I to start a family... That means buying a family size house and Sarah giving up full time work. With Site Build It!, that dream is about to become reality!

Well that's MY story! I wish you the same success.

Take care

Marc Liron
Microsoft MVP - Digital Media
http://www.updatexp.com

Marcs site has gone from strength to strength, he has bought his four bed detached house, works from home, makes over £5000 every single month and loves life.